In Raven Mother, Jane Messer writes of the grandmother she never knew: a woman who defied expectations but was undone by war, displacement, exile and separation.
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Holocaust denial is connected to antisemitism, and exploring life prior to the Holocaust illustrates a trajectory of antisemitc expression.
How does one write the essence of a life once it has come to an end?Mark Raphael Baker’s A Season of Death is an intimate, at times harrowing, portrait of grief.
Hermann Pollnow’s parents saved him from the Nazi Germany they wouldn’t survive. His story, told by his Australian granddaughter, reminds us the Holocaust is a global history, not just a European one.
Mark Raphael Baker is best known for two outstanding memoirs, The Fiftieth Gate, exploring his parents’ Holocaust experience, and Thirty Days, about the death of his first wife.
The past of the Holocaust still haunts the present and calls out to Canadian writers. Their works of poetry and prose are forms of remembrance that command our attention.
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